A system for connecting electronic assemblies and/or for manufacturing workpieces has a plurality of modules for connecting the electronic assemblies and/or for manufacturing the workpieces. At least one module is a loading station and one is an unloading station, or one module is a loading station and unloading station. At least one further module is a manufacturing station, and a manufacturing workpiece carrier is provided for accommodating the electronic assemblies and/or workpieces which is movable in automated manner by a conveying unit from the loading station via the manufacturing station to the unloading station. A multiple gripper is provided by which at least two electronic assemblies and/or workpieces are simultaneously placeable onto the manufacturing workpiece carrier. A foil/film transfer unit and a foil/film detachment unit and a manufacturing workpiece carrier with at least two workpieces is provided. A method for connecting electronic assemblies and/or for manufacturing workpieces is provided.
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2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the multiple gripper has four gripper arms, which are each designed to pick up one electronic assembly and/or one workpiece arm.
3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the multiple gripper has four gripper arms arranged parallel to one another along a line, two outer of the gripper arms being movable along the line such that they are movable relative to two inner of the gripper arms.
4. The system according to claim 1, further comprising at least one automation robot in the loading station and/or unloading station for guiding the multiple gripper by which at least two electronic assemblies and/or workpieces are placeable in automated manner and simultaneously from a conveying workpiece carrier onto the manufacturing workpiece carrier in the loading station.
5. The system according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the gripper arms, in particular every gripper arm, has at least two gripping elements for picking up an electronic assembly and/or workpiece, which effects an alignment of the electronic assembly and/or workpiece in an axis, wherein the axis passes in particular through both gripping elements.
6. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an aligning unit that effects an alignment of the electronic assembly and/or workpiece picked up by the multiple gripper in an axis parallel and/or transverse to the multiple gripper.
7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the aligning unit effects an alignment of the electronic assemblies and/or workpieces in an axis transverse to the alignment by means of the gripping elements.
8. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a centering device provided in the loading station for alignment and/or centering of the manufacturing workpiece carrier or of a baseplate of the manufacturing workpiece carrier accommodated in a conveying frame, the centering device effecting a horizontal and/or vertical alignment and/or centering of the manufacturing workpiece carrier before accommodating the electronic assemblies and/or workpieces.
9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the centering device comprises a centering plate and/or a lifting unit, wherein control is in particular pneumatic.
10. The system according to claim 8, further comprising at least one projection or peg, which is contactable with a stop on the manufacturing workpiece carrier, provided on the centering plate, such that alignment and/or centering of the manufacturing workpiece carrier relative to the centering plate takes place in the horizontal plane.
11. The system according to claim 4, further comprising a further conveying unit for accommodating the conveying workpiece carrier, the further conveying unit being movable, independently of the modules, from the loading station to the unloading station, in particular bypassing the manufacturing station.
12. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a manufacturing workpiece carrier with at least two workpieces, wherein the at least two workpieces are arranged one above the other on the manufacturing workpiece carrier, wherein a foil or film is arranged between the at least two workpieces arranged one above the other on the manufacturing workpiece carrier.
14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the returning of the manufacturing workpiece carrier takes place in a plane arranged below, above or adjacent in a plane in which the manufacturing workpiece carrier is arranged during loading and/or unloading.
15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the manufacturing workpiece carrier is returned by a first conveying unit, and the conveying workpiece carrier is arranged on a further conveying unit which is moved in particular in automated manner, wherein the first conveying unit and the further conveying unit are movable mutually independently, in particular bypassing the manufacturing station.
16. The method according to claim 13, wherein the conveying workpiece carrier accommodates one electronic assembly and/or one workpiece, and the manufacturing workpiece carrier accommodates more than two, in particular more than seven, especially twenty-four or more, electronic assemblies and/or workpieces, such that during loading and/or unloading the manufacturing workpiece carrier pauses at a position in the loading station until the conveying unit has fully loaded the manufacturing workpiece carrier with electronic assemblies and/or workpieces.
17. A method for loading a workpiece carrier of a system according claim 1, wherein an alignment of the workpieces is performed by the multiple gripper and/or by an aligning unit, such that all workpieces are aligned in a horizontal plane transversely and/or longitudinally to an axis of the multiple gripper.
18. The method according to claim 17, wherein a further alignment of the manufacturing workpiece carrier or of a baseplate of the manufacturing workpiece carrier accommodated in a conveying frame is performed by a centering device.
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